Georg Johan Sverdrup | |
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Born | (1885-01-26)January 26, 1885 Stockholm, Sweden |
Died | November 4, 1951(1951-11-04) (aged 66) |
Occupation | Religious scholar |
Georg Johan Sverdrup (January 26, 1885 – November 4, 1951) was a professor of the history of religion.
Life and family
Sverdrup was born in Stockholm; he was the son of the bishop and politician Jakob Sverdrup and the brother of the Germanic philology professor Jakob Sverdrup and the zoologist Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme. He was the father of the historian Jakob Sverdrup, who directed the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the mathematician Erling Sverdrup. He was the nephew of the theologian Georg Sverdrup.
After graduation, he worked as an instructor and school principal in Molde and at the Tanks Upper Secondary School in Bergen. After the Second World War, he received a professorship in religious studies at the University of Oslo as the successor to Wilhelm Schencke.
Bibliography
- Fra gravskikker til dødstro i nordisk stenalder (From Burial Customs to Religious Conceptions of Death in the Nordic Stone Age). Oslo: Dybwad, 1927
- Die Hausurnen und die Heiligkeit des Hauses (House Urns and the Sanctity of the House). Oslo: Dybwad, 1939
- Da Norge ble kristnet : En religionssosiologisk studie (When Norway Became Christian: A Religious Sociological Study). Oslo: Norli, 1942
References
- "Begravde i Oslo". Retrieved January 10, 2020.
- ^ Finne-Grønn, S. H. (1923). Slegten Sverdrup: kortfattede genealogiske-personalhistoriske oplysninger med prospekter og portrætter. Christiania: Det Mallingske Bogtrykkeri.
- Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon. Oslo: Aschehoug. 1972.
- Bratberg, Terje (2018). "Sverdrup". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved January 10, 2020.
- Studentene fra 1935: biografiske opplysninger, artikler og statistikk samlet til 25-års jubileet september 1960. Oslo: Bokkomiteen for studentene fra 193. 1960.
- Nora S. Eggen (2019). "On the Periphery: Translations of the Qurʾān in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway". In Hanna, Sameh; El-Farahaty, Hanem; Khalifa, Abdel-Wahab (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation. London: Routledge. pp. 65–80. ISBN 1138958042.
- Halden, Sissel (1999). "Professor Schenke og Teologene". Chaos: dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier. 32. Copenhagen: Institut for religionshistorie: 79, 85.